Asides

how not to write to your customers

This morning I received a newsletter from Zemanta in my inbox. When I opened it to read, I was horrified. It read like a 12 year old was writing me a personal letter as my BFF. It honestly hurt my eyes and my soul so much that I have decided to reprint it here for […]

i’m a mac

This is yet another tale of me trying to cross over from a PC to a Mac.  But this time, I have done so successfully for at least the last 2 months.  Hooray! The last time I tried to make the switch, I didn’t last very long.  At most a month.  I now realise that the issue […]

farmville trickster (cough, i am a loser)

Yes.  I am addicted to Farmville.  I will be the first one to admit it.  I love that stupid little farm that I am building.  It is consuming my life to the point that I actually have to calculate my life around harvest time. Sad, but true. I have been formulating some kind of strategy. […]

how to load your dishwasher

I don’t know why it took me nearly 30 years to figure this one out, but I have come to the conclusion that the way most people load their utensils in the dishwasher is incorrect. I have been observing different people’s loading techniques over the past few years and realise that most everyone throws their […]

fres-yes – the dumbest city in the U.S.

My hometown, commonly referred to by me as the Detroit of California, is once again topping the bottom of the charts.  This time it makes the list as being “the dumbest city in the United States”.  How proud this makes me.  First we had Kevin Federline, then deemed the Meth Capital of the World by […]

dvorak geek

I am a pretty fast typist.  I think that I can type between 60-70 wpm on average.  But I also suffer from a lot of pain in my shoulders and neck.  I think that this is due to the fact that being such a geek about 80% of my waking hours are spent in front […]

district 9 floats my boat

I have to admit that I loved District 9. It is quite possibly the funniest movie that I have seen in ages.  Plus it is super geeky. So great. I highly recommend it.